Scavange: a text adventure game for the Atari 8-bit computer, written in Atari BASIC, with a spelling error right there in the title.
I wrote this game circa 1988. It was on floppy disk of Atari computer games that I wrote in middle-to-high school. It's a scavenger hunt that I wrote for use by callers to Weird City BBS (I still remember the number: 213-273-5234.) I don't know if anyone ever played it.
The game doesn't have a traditional parser because I was lazy and/or didn't know how to implement one. It only allows a small number of one-letter commands (such as P for push.)
This is the game as I left it in 1988, playable in the Atari emulator...except for the two showstopping bugs that I found and fixed in 2020. As much as I wanted to fix other things (like my spelling) I didn't.
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